Retrieval practice is strongly supported by over 100 years of research and is one of only two learning techniques rated by Dunlosky et al. (2013) as having ‘hig...
Cognitive load theory (CLT) (Sweller, 1998) is a well-established framework that has attracted renewed attention due to its evidential role in the new Ofsted ‘E...
Developments in our understanding of how three- to seven-year-olds learn mathematics have practical relevance for the mathematics we plan for in nursery, Recept...
A relatively incontrovertible aim of education is to enable students to become independent in their learning, equipping them with the skills to make strategic a...
In 2018, the Education Endowment Foundation published some guidance for schools on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning, which we are told provides ‘high i...
We know that participation in structured arts activities can improve learning, attainment, employability, health and social engagement (Cultural Learning Allian...
A picture not only paints a thousand words and tells a story but also crosses language and communication barriers. It encourages inference; it involves both art...
In a changing and uncertain world, most of us can agree that education is one of the single most important things in society today. Aside from imparting knowled...
Rhetoric?
Would you want to work in a school that had a narrow, unbalanced curriculum? How about one with a broad, balanced curriculum? The questions are rhet...
Ofsted’s consultation about its new education inspection framework, with its focus on the curriculum, is leading Early Years practitioners to wonder what a curr...
In considering the importance of knowledge and subject-specialist teaching, Lambert (2018) highlights that ‘the curriculum: the quality of its contents, its seq...
There is increasing concern within and beyond the teaching profession at how the primary curriculum in England in recent years has become unbalanced, with the e...
As teachers, we know the importance of vocabulary for accessing and meeting the demands of an increasingly challenging secondary curriculum. One way that school...
Once upon a time I was a natural environmental science graduate, and one of my dilemmas at age 21 was whether or not to undertake a funded PhD on peat bog recla...
Motivation is a complicated beast. Traditionally broken into intrinsic and extrinsic types, students may be motivated by a whole host of competing and intertwin...
A longstanding debate in educational and psychological research is the effectiveness of constructivist teaching methods over direct instruction. Although constr...
A significant proportion of students in schools in the UK use English as an additional language (EAL). Latest figures show that EAL learners in England account ...
Michael Young’s concept of powerful knowledge is central in considering the function of a school curriculum. Young argues that ‘powerful knowledge is inescapabl...
This article argues for a situated perspective of new teachers’ work and professional learning, and highlights important considerations for retention and succes...
Although classroom computers have been with us since the 1970s, schools have only recently become truly ‘digital’. Now, every school seems full of digital devic...
